St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-20
THE LATEST NEWS.
Events of Importance at Home
and Abroad.

ment will be $1,000. All the other amend
ments have been carried, except the on
extending the time of the sitting of tn
Legislature from sixty to ninety days, ant
making the pay of members IS per day 70
the latter period, instead of for sixty days a
is now the law.
Bids have been opened at the Navy De
partment for the construction of three stee
cruisers of about 1900 tons displacement
each, and two steel gunboats, each of abOu
LOO tons displacement. Plans and speciti
cations have been asked for by nearly every
establishment in this country capable O.
building vessels of the character required.
The Dominion government has called fol
new tenders for weekly mail service be
tween England and Canada, the tenders re
Gently received not being regarded as salts
factory. The provisions of the contract cal
for faster service, and only require that
Halifax Quebec and Montreal shall be the
Canadian cities touched at in summer.
A telegram from Ottawa says: There is
not word of truth in the report that fresh
proposals for the settlement of the fisheries
dispute emanating from the American gov
ernment had been approved by the Canadian
government. AS matter of fact, negotia-
tions are still in progress, and cabinet min
lister stated that the government would not
modify the stand already taken by Canada.
The schooners Argonaut and Colonel J. H.
French, the seines of which were seized in
Canadian waters, have arrived at Gloucester,
Mass. Captains Harris and Sprague say that
after the boats were seized they left for home,
coming out through the Gulf of St. Law
renee, keeping thirty miles off shore and
sailing around Cape Breton. A dense fog
! prevailed all the time and the cruiser could
not see them. The Argonaut had only four
men on board and dare not put into port to
! ship more. The captain and crew say that
when the selnes were set they were four
miles from shore, but a strong current set
ting toward the land carried them in shore
When the boats were seized they were out
SIDE the limit. John Stropple and Robert
| Jamison, two Of the crew of the schooner
| W. n. Stevens, got astray while tending
travis, and have not been heard from.
1t is rumored in financial circles in the
City Of Mexico that an American bank,
with large capital will be established
France
1t was said, during the recent convention
of colored veterans in Boston, that the first
colored troops enlisted in the late war were
from Massachusetts,. General B. F. Butler
publishes letter in which he asserts that in
1862 he enlisted three regiments of colored
troops in New Orleans, and had them in
action long time before colored soldiers
were used elsewhere. He writes the letter,
he says, to correct an error in history.
J. B. Haynes, of Galveston, colored stu
dent in Dartmouth College, has been ap-
pointed demonstrator of anatomy at that
institution.
The will of the late Catherine Dunbar,
who died in France last April, has been
filed for probate in Milwaukee. Her estate
is valued at about 100000. Appended to
the will is a contract with the Archbishop of
Benevento, France, for the establishment of
perpetual masses for deceased and her rela-
tives on the receipt of $4,000.
A man. named Tatum, his wife and boy
named Kirby, were killed by lightning near
Scottsboro', Ala.
A heavy thunderstorm visited Jackson,
Miss. Several houses were struck by light
ming, among them the Episcopal rectory, the
upper story of which was badly damaged.
The drouth in Southern Wisconsin, it is
said, threatens to make considerable por-
ton of that region ''little more than black |
desert before many days. unless rain should |
intervene. The streams and wells are dried |
oil fho hoc 3aIy oc.
ton, and burning prairies add to the distress.
A new industry is reported at Montrose,
ILL., An artesian well there, notwithstand-
ing the drouth, pours out its waters in an
undiminished stream. Parties have rigged
up portable tank containing 600 gallons.
They fill this at the well in about four min
utes, and sell the tank full to the owners of
wellsin the neighborhood which have gone
dry at So the tank full.
Fifty tons of rock fell in the eastern end of
the Cascade tunnel, now being built for the
Northern Pacific railroad in Washington
Territory. -Four men were killed and several
were injured, but none fatally. The men
assert that the contractors were careless and
did not timber the tunnel fast enough to
keep up with the boring.
Two of the injured IN the disaster on the
Newport News railroad, near Greenwood,
Nash, of Brooklyn, and Miss
5allie Carroll, of Roncevert, w. Va.-are
1ot expected to recover. Mrs. Tisdel, of
New York, suffered internal injuries the
seriousness Of which is not yet ascertained.
During picnic of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers at Lake Monewa,
lear Council Bluffs, Ia., pleasure steamer
vas sunk by a squall. Five men were
lroWned and two or three others are miss
ng. The bodies of Joseph Newman, George
Jartright, G. Fl. Ferguson and two unknown
nen have been recovered.
The st. James and Eastern Hotels in
)unkirk, N. Y, have been burned. Loss,
There is no insurance on the St.
'ames Hotel, while that on the Eastern
Hotel is small.
Two deeds have been recorded at Cleveland
J., in the line of the reorganization Of the
tickle Plate railroad.